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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 4, 1980
Groups interested in using idle McCollum equipment
By BOB SCHAAD Staff Reporter
Several persons in addition to the McCollum Hall Senate have expressed an interest in about $18,000 worth of unused video equipment owned by the KU office of hospital.
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J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said yesterday he had received several calls from students requesting equipment. He said callers included the KU Personnel Services, the legal aid clinic of the KU School of Law and a representative who monitors that researches television's effect on children.
Although there has been some interest in
the equipment's use, Wilson said he was in no hurry to dispose of the videotape cameras, recorders and other equipment.
"I've had several calls, but no proposals." Wilson said. "I feel no ultimatum or compulsion to sell or give the equipment away."
The equipment was purchased in 1974 and was to be used in McCollin Hall as part of a communications center, an idea devised by Wilson.
The program received initial support from residents of McColum during the 1974 spring semester. The center was placed in operation during the 1974 fall semester, but resisted by residents caused the hall senate and the office of housing to abandon the program.
John C. Wright, professor of human sciences at the University for Research on the Influences of Televisions on Children (CRTC), who he phoned Wilson to express his interest in the equipment's use.
THE EQUIPMENT has not been used since 1974.
He said CRITC was willing to borrow the equipment until its permanent use was determined by the office of housing.
Wright said the center studied television's effects on children. He said the center needed additional television monitors and a camera to replace items stolen last year.
"I'm drooling over the equipment,"
Bruce Linton, director of the department of radio, television and film, said some of the equipment would be a welcome addition to news broadcasting's introductory news-broadcasting class.
Wright said. "We're critically short of monitors and a good color camera."
LINTON SAID a class of 22 persons was currently sharing one camera field for class assignments. He said an additional camera would help take the burden off the student.
"Any equipment we could get would relieve certain kinds of pressure on students he said. "The portable equipment would be more valuable to the beginning classroom class."
Linton said his only reservation about the
equipment was whether it would stand up to rugged use in the field.
He said that because the equipment was not of broadcast-quality and had not been used for six years, it would have to be adjusted. He said he carefully before anyone attempted to use it.
Though interest has been expressed in the equipment, Wilson stressed that he would not give it away.
"We've got about $18,000 to $19,000 invested," he said. "I don't think we'd want to recover that much, but we'd certainly like to recover half." he said.
HE SAID the equipment might be used in the office of housing for training new employees.
"We would be able to show people how to do things, from trimming grass to taking a pie out of a pie pan to carving a roast," Wilson said.
Wilson also said there was a possibility of the equipment being used in a residence hall in the future.
The McCollam Senate recently formed a committee to study uses of the equipment within the hall.
"I'm not in a hurry to get rid of the equipment unless we get a good price because I know that we'll eventually use it in some way in the residence halls," he said.
At a hall senate meeting this week, the committee decided the project would have to be handled by next year's government.
Dykes to get free-speech report
BY TERESA RIORDAN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Freedom of expression has not been given enough attention in the past, according to a report by the University Senate Archie R. Dykes and the University Senate executive committee by the Blue Ribbon Advisory Council.
Dykes charged the committee on Nov. 1, 1979, to examine issues related to freedom of expression at KU.
Administrative action in free expression questions had been ad hoc, the report said.
"Consequently, the chancellors of the University shall have an ongoing charge, passed from predecessor to successor, to be
the leading guardian of free expression," it said.
Richard Cole, the committee chairman, said the report did not address specific charges of free expression violations at KU and that he was charged to be耽误 only with general policy.
FREEDOM of speech has recently been a issue because of administration policies that require rules on about rules on the distribution of literature and the arrest of a KU student for displaying an incitement.
Ron Kuby, 345 Michigan St. was arrested when he refused to take down a banner protesting Kansas University Endowment Association investments in South Africa.
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Kuby said he thought the report was excellent considering the committee's charge, but that the problem with freedom is over. He said it would be at the University deal with specific cases.
"Where does one go when one's rights are violated?" Kuby said. "I think the report points the blame in the direction it belongs.
"Dykes and the other chancellors have consistently put their whimsical, aesthetic considerations above the First Amendment."
yesterday that "some of these instances would be nothing unusual in a city auditorium."
"If they happened outside of the University community, they would be accepted." he said.
Cole said in the committee's final meeting
**COLE SAID** he thought the present University policy on free expression was a baldower from the 1960s.
"We got burned in the 60s, we retreated into a shell in the '70s, preferring to keep the lid on things without overly recessing freedom," he said.
The Committee recommended that part of the Board of Regents rule on political activity in the university, although it was amended, although it said it found the University's written policies on freedom of speech and expression.
The report suggested the rule prohibiting political advertisements and the distribution of political handbills at non-citizen events, which was substituted with the following statement:
"Freedom of political expression on the campus is subject only to oversight by the university order, assure the safety of individuals, protect property and the continuity of the university."
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alternatives to the off-campus counseling group called Headquarters.
"I don't agree with the logic, but I do," he said. "Heck, you wouldn't want Heckoheads would be in the same boat as Consumer Affairs," Macchettio said. "Under that logic you can construe
S six organizations were cited as providing services that overlapped with Consumer Affairs offerings, but representatives five and eight were not present, when contacted later, disagreed.
The organizations were the KU Information Center, KU Legal Services, OffCampus Board, Associated Students of University, and various programs and the Student Assistance Center.
STEVE RUDICK, Student Legal Services attorney, said he was "adamantly opposed" to striking Consumer Affairs' staff. He said the lawsuit and Legal Services benefited each other.
heading off problems before they become legal. They take some of the burden off our case load."
Judy Browder, coordinator of the KU Information Center and a member of the Consumer Affairs board of directors, said that we should be well and that their services did not overlap.
"We act as an information and referral service and we refer 20 calls a week to Consumer Affairs, but it is out of our range when you pay Consumer Affairs, does." Brewer said.
"I couldn't believe it happened," Ruddick said. "The rationale was if one person can help the student body, then there can't be two.
"Consumer Affairs plays a big role in
"We handle all kinds of problems encountered by students, but we are not prepared to handle problems with housing or consumer problems, and we prefer not to."
THE STUDENT Assistance Center offers "substantially different" services, Lorna Grunz, center director, said.
Dave Bruns, Off-Campus Board member,
said the board and Consumer Affairs did overlap in the areas of crime prevention programs and on work at the Landlord-Tenant
"Consumer Affairs is more established than we are," Bruns said. "People know more about them than us."
Fred McElhenne, office of residential programs director, said his office's services did not coincide with Consumer Affairs.
"We have neither the staff nor the expertise to handle the problems that Consumer Affairs does," McElhenne said. "I told them we were the ones we named in this area."
ROBIN MCCLELLAN, campus director of the Associated Students of Kansas, said she was confused about which ASK function was required during the Service Committee's hearing.
"ASK is not a service organization in the same sense that Consumer Affairs is," McCillian said. "We lobby in Topeka, and we lobby in Topocha, then there is some overlap."
Chapman said Consumer Affairs often communicated with legislators, but that the staff did not actively lobby.
"We have co-existed with student service organizations since we were funded in 1979," he said. "Why, all of the sudden, are people saying there is duplication?"
Originally Consumer Afmairs was funded solely by Student Senate, Chapman said.
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"I am a social and a political being," he said, "and social and political spell life itself."
RUIPER, WHO was part of Forest's February delegation to Iran, said he saw no contradiction between his priesthood and involvement in political issues.
He he said that individuals had a right to enter into the Iranian situation without being called medders, a common criticism of clergymen on previous trips.
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"I think the motivations of people are much more pure than those of governments," he said. "Governments tend to be in contact with the human, personal element is last."
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Ruipier said on his last visit he saw photographs of "hundreds and hundreds of Iranians who were brutally tortured" by the Shah's ancient secret police during the Shabh's reign.
"I think corporate interests and top officials have gained much from the repression under the Shah, and I think the president has by those monied interests," he said.
Rupiper said he hoped to help break "the silence of the media which has been going on for so long."
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